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Kapsulues is an open source 'widget' program. A widget is a small program that comes on at boot-up of your computer, most times they are simple programs that tell you the weather, or a a Christmas tree to your desktop. The reason to choose Kapsulues over Yahoo Widgets or Windows Sidebar is it is open source, so anyone can take the program and make it better! There are about 150 widgets to choose from already! Check 'em out at WidgetForge. I give Kapsulues a 9/10!

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Hardware Reviews

RCA Lyra is a MP3 player like the IPod. It has a fairly decent memory of 256MB (expandable with an SD card),
its sound quality is great! The only couple of things that are bad about it is that it is a blue-orange-grey-black screen, so no colors. It's response time is kinda slow, but it makes up for that with the only MP3 player come with decent ear-buds. As an added bonus you get 100 free music downloads when you register your Lyra with eMusic.com/lyra. Overall I give the Lyra a 8/10. Check it out at RCA's homepage!

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The Kodak CD33 is a great little compact camera. It lets you hold about 50 pictures on built-in memory, and up to 1532 photos on a 1GB SD card. The camera requires specialized rechargable batteries to take more than 50 pictures, or you could use lithium ones. The CD33 is about $60 on Tigerdirect.com.

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